teaboy
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Oct 21, 2024 21:03:55 GMT
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I must confess, when I got home on Friday night I was done in and couldn't be bothered to go into the tent. I told myself that I would be able to make up for it over the weekend. Not on Saturday though, because I have to do things on a Saturdays. A couple of weeks ago, my Dad was taken into hospital because he had a fall (he's 90). Luckily he was in the house at the time so he didn't do himself any damage but the problem is that his back legs have gone. He was taken into hospital in Doncaster which, from what I saw is absolutely shambolic. They managed to lose his lower dentures the first day he was there. When I went to see him, they had lost him as well. They eventually found out which bed he was supposed to be in and that he had been taken for an MRI scan. His bed had someone else's name and details over it, by the way... Anyway, they brought him back from the scan and put him in the bed. Firstly, I got them to change the name over the bed and secondly I said, where are his teeth? They said, 'Oh, they got lost in A&E'. I said, 'That was his bottom teeth, he doesn't have any top ones now either!'. Someone scurried off back to the MRI place and managed to retrieve them but I'm pretty sure that if I hadn't been there at that time, they would have gone the same way as the bottom ones and we would never have seen them again. He has since been moved to Mexborough, which seems to be a much better place and I am a lot less worried about his welfare. So whilst I have been driving over there on Saturdays to see my Dad, it does mean that I should be able to get things done on a Sunday. This Sunday however, storm Ashley didn't want me to get anything done. It was wild outside, but my tent seems to have survived, thankfully. I had a couple of hours in there tonight but it was more of the same, removing the undercoating.  It is hardly the most photogenic of jobs. During the procedure, one of the wires from the wire wheely thing flew off and stuck in my face, just below my bottom lip. That wasn't very photogenic either. It did stop me from falling asleep on the job though. Cheers. |
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Oct 21, 2024 21:19:00 GMT
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Sorry your dad's not well. Sometimes you have to concentrate on others and the toys have to take a bit of a back seat.
Hope he recovers soon.
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glenanderson
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Yeah, I second that. Also though, having gone through the poorly elderly parent thing with first mine, and now my wife’s, don’t forget to take care of yourself (and the good Dr.) too.
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My worst worry about dying is my wife selling my stuff for what I told her it cost...
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Glad to hear your Dad's ok, as others have said, try and keep a steady pace with time for yourself...
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skinnylew
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Sorry to hear about your Dad, as someone in the hospital system currently it is chaotic at times, scans especially and movement can be an absolute p.i.t.a (one company went bust and it was a nightmare, was having Chemo at another hospital and it took 6hrs to get back......about 5 miles across London)
That said there are a lot of good people doing invaluable jobs. Hope it all works out for him/you
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thomfr
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Oct 22, 2024 14:38:55 GMT
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Wishing al the best and a good health again for your dad.
Thom
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teaboy
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Oct 22, 2024 19:46:39 GMT
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Many thanks for the good wishes, I do appreciate it. Either it is starting to get very cold on an evening now, or I am just not dressing appropriately for it because I feel frozen. Maybe it is time to deploy the thermal underwear. I don't suppose that two hours laid on the floor under a car without moving about too much is going to help with keeping warm. It has been another session of underbody sealer removal and it really is quite a tedious job. Last night it looked like this. I have managed to make it look like this now.  I know, I can't tell the difference either. It didn't feel like two hours of progress but there must be less sealant on there now than there was, because I was covered in lots of whitish flaky stuff when I emerged. Here is a picture of the floor from a different angle.  That view is just as boring as the other. All this time wasting is keeping me away from the rear inner arches though, so maybe I should drag it out even longer. I haven't really got a plan for those yet. Cheers. |
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Oct 22, 2024 20:00:44 GMT
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When this is finished you're going to have to hang a full-length mirror underneath it so people can see how clean it is!
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Living vicariously through other people's projects!
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"Either it is starting to get very cold on an evening now, or I am just not dressing appropriately for it because I feel frozen." I have this mental picture of Bibendum...  ps it's cold ... |
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teaboy
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Oct 23, 2024 19:52:41 GMT
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When this is finished you're going to have to hang a full-length mirror underneath it so people can see how clean it is! Were I live, the underside will be covered in mud and horse dung on its first drive to the MOT station... I have this mental picture of Bibendum... So, you are saying that I'm a fatty?  Another two hours freezing to death under this rotten old shed tonight. These are the comparison shots. Last night. Tonight.  Last night again. Tonight again.  When I was under there I thought that I had done quite a bit, but the pictures say otherwise and the camera never lies... Also, when I was underneath I noticed this.  That is under the rear seat area and I repaired that ages ago. Seems like it is turning into a Forth Bridge type of job, I may be working under here for ever... It seems that instead of embarking on this restoration, what I should have done as soon as I saw the first bit of rust was to have set fire to it and pushed the ungrateful swine off Beachy Head. Cheers. |
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It seems that instead of embarking on this restoration, what I should have done as soon as I saw the first bit of rust was to have set fire to it and pushed the ungrateful swine off Beachy Head. I didn't dare to write it, sorry. |
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Last Edit: Oct 24, 2024 7:09:22 GMT by westbay
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teaboy
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Oct 24, 2024 20:54:02 GMT
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It seems that instead of embarking on this restoration, what I should have done as soon as I saw the first bit of rust was to have set fire to it and pushed the ungrateful swine off Beachy Head. I didn't dare to write it, sorry. You should have said earlier, it would have saved me loads of effort.  Is that 'gap' by design or rust ? if by design , what's it for ? as you might have guessed my BMW speak is limited For some reason, the end of that chassis rail is open by design. Maybe it is to encourage water and mud to accumulate in there to help it rot away? I did do a bit more cleaning up under the floor tonight but I didn't bother to take any pictures because not only would they be totally uninteresting, they would also look exactly the same as the previous ones. Before I did that, I looked at my new rusty bit. I was terribly annoyed by this, of course. It looks like there are one ot two areas where I didn't achieve total coverage with the epoxy. I found a few areas that looked a bit dodgy and cleaned the paint back. These bits got some spooge treatment.  I am going to have to inspect the whole back end for poor coverage and do the same with any suspect areas. Once I have found and treated them all it will get a quick sanding and be re-painted, probably more than once. Cheers. |
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gazzam
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This car is certainly putting up a fight.
It wants to return to the earth, seemingly.
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"For some reason, the end of that chassis rail is open by design. Maybe it is to encourage water and mud to accumulate in there to help it rot away?" Odd, very odd ....foreigners design |
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Long(ish) time since your last post, hope all is well?
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teaboy
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Long(ish) time since your last post, hope all is well? Yes all is good here, thanks. Nothing exciting to report at the moment, that's why I've been deep undercover. As an Austrian cyborg once said, 'I'll be back'. Cheers. |
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ChasR
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Good to hear you are alright. I'm sorry to hear about your dad. It can be hard to deal with these things, especially when things go awry, but at least it sounds like things are on the mend. As said, take care of yourself . |
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teaboy
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Nov 15, 2024 21:15:26 GMT
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Good to hear you are alright. I'm sorry to hear about your dad. It can be hard to deal with these things, especially when things go awry, but at least it sounds like things are on the mend. As said, take care of yourself . Thanks, Chas. I don't feel like I have made a great deal of progress of late. I have spent a lot of hours laid under the car cleaning off the undercoating but it has been a slow and laborious process. I haven't been doing it every night because I have yet to come to terms with the cold and dark nights. I haven't had much time at the weekends because I have been going over to see my dad. Just to make things even better, my mum was taken into the hospital last Friday evening. Obviously it was a different hospital to the one where my dad is. Lots of things happened last weekend, I was like a good Samaritan, I did things for my mum, my dad, my dad's girlfriend (my parents are divorced) and also things for the Doc's mum. They are all in different locations so I was running around all over the place for them, but everyone is ok. I was able to bring my mum home from hospital, so that was good. Anyway, cleaning up under the car... The main floor area wasn't too bad to do but all the fiddly bits were a pain. This bit here alongside the chassis rail.  It doesn't really show up on the picture but the floor dips down alongside the rail almost as low, so you can't get a grinder in there. I had to get all that off with a tiny wire wheel on the Dremel.  It took hours. The fact that it took so long was a good thing because it meant that the sealer was stuck to good metal and not to rust. When it is stuck to rust it comes off really quickly but it takes far more time to cut out and replace that rust than it does to just clean it off the good stuff. The floor is now mostly cleaned, and mostly good.  This was the worst bit, just next to the chassis rail.  Luckily it hadn't developed into rot and I was able to just clean it off.  That, and any other bits where I had gone through the e-coat to the metal have just had a good spooging for now.  That is where I am at currently. Cheers. |
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teaboy
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Nov 18, 2024 23:32:30 GMT
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Due to life and things I didn't get to go into the tent at all this weekend. This morning when I went out everything was frozen, the cold which I have not been enjoying of late has got even more serious. I was thinking that maybe I could get the space heater on in the tent tonight and see what it was like. That was before my day at work went slightly off course and I ended up getting home late, by which time the cold of this morning would have been nice in comparison. What I am saying is that this is a report of my having nothing really to report. Anyway, that was quite boring so instead, I will show you something which was at the place where my job that didn't go entirely to plan was.  This is a 1989 Porsche 930, the only year with the five speed G50 gearbox and it is the only car delivered in this specification. Light yellow, or hellgelb as it is called is one of my favorite colours for 911s. It is more of a 1970s colour and I think that it must have been a special order in 1989. I also like the Turbo decals.  I have only seen these on earlier 3.0 litre turbos. I thought it looked fabulous, but then I looked inside.  The interior is a bit gash, it's too much I think. Oh well, I'm not the one who has to look at that yellow steering wheel... As I mentioned earlier, I haven't done anything on the BMW because when I got home the cold became cold with snow. In more positive news, The lovely Doctor has made me a cake.  There isn't that much of it left now, I can assure you. Cheers. |
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